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Abbotsbury, in Dorsetshire, to the mouth of the Axe, near Seaton, Devon. 
We saw many there at the beginning of June 1892, and were pleased to 
hear that they were regarded as sacred by the people of Seaton. 
Whooper Swan (p. 214). 
A young female was shot by Mr. P. Brutton in the Bight off Exmouth, 
23rd January, 1893; the weight is said to have been 141bs. The trachea 
penetrated only 3 inches into the substance of the sternum. The stomach 
was perfectly empty, and the bird had probably not fed for many hours. 
It was preserved, and is now in our possession. (W.S. M. D’U.) 
Common Sheldrake (p. 219). 
Many have been shot on the Exe and Kingsbridge Estuaries during the 
recent severe winters. Mr. W. EH. H. Pidsley found a nest with 1] eggs 
in a rabbit-burrow on Dawlish Warren on 27th May, 1893 (Zool. 1893, 
p. 268). 
Ruddy Sheldrake (p. 221). 
In the summer of 1892 a number of these birds appeared on all the 
coasts of the British Isles, that probably came north from Morocco, 
visiting first the shores of Devonshire, 8. Wales, and Ireland, then the 
N.W. coasts of England and Scotland, and returning south again by the 
Eastern counties of Scotland and England, Numerous specimens were 
secured, and among them were three that were obtained at the mouth 
of the Taw, in North Devon. (Vide Zool. 1892, pp. 426, 427.) We 
imagine that the three Ruddy Sheldrakes shot ‘‘near the Woolacombe 
Sands,” mentioned by Mr. F. Carruthers Gould, are identical with the 
three Mr. H. A. Evans speaks of as ‘“ shot on the Taw near Braunton in 
June last by a man called Petherick” ;—the open and exposed Woola- 
combe Sands would be an unlikely place for Ducks to be approached and 
shot,—and from enquiries we have made we learn that only three Ruddy 
Sheldrakes were shot at the time in N. Devon, The example of the 
Ruddy Sheldrake at Westward Ho! College was shot at the beginning of 
April 1882, and not during the winter, as we have stated. (H. A. E., 
in litt.) 
Wigeon (p. 221). 
Mr. W. V. Toll states that young birds have been shot early in August, 
on Slapton Ley, for several years past, and that he regularly sees old 
birds there in the spring. On a recent visit (on May 9th, 1895) to that 
ornithological paradise, under Mr. Toll’s guidance, we were fortunate 
